Cats & Kids, Kids & Cats

Whenever we take the children for a walk around the neighbourhood, inevitably Harun will follow us. He won’t follow us all the way, but maybe just around the corner then when he realises we’re going further than he’s comfortable with, he just turns around and goes home.

Thomas, as I’ve mentioned before, is a bit more sedate (and it shows!) so he generally prefers to just watch us from the garden.

“Yea, you guys go have your walk,” he’s probably thinking, “I’ll just stay here and … zzzz … be on … zzZZ …. guard duty … zzzZZZZzzzzzz.” What’s he guarding, the cat food from other cats? He does a fantastic job of that!

There was one time, though, when I took the boys to our neighbour’s house across the road to give them a fruitcake for Christmas and they both followed us there! When we came out both Harun and Thomas were milling about outside our neighbour’s compound, as close as they would get since our neighbour has a pretty big dog.

I haven’t got a picture of Adik doing a wrestling pin on Harun yet (Thomas just scarpers when he sees either of the boys), but it does remind me a lot of Abang when he was Adik’s age, playing with KKU.

The best thing was recently, after a nice evening walk, Harun decided he would try Adik’s stroller for a change. He looked really comfortable in it, until Adik found out.

“Hey!” Shove. “Gerroff my stroller!”

Non-toddlers like you and me would have just heard, “Ca-ca! Ungh ungh ay-ay-ay-ay!”

And so Harun’s comfort was short-lived. I’m sure he’ll try again soon.